Sentence examples for once handy from inspiring English sources

The weathered palm-size volumes, once handy for a quick date on a slow Chicago Saturday night, have passed fully into the realm of historical relic.

A once handy man, he spends his days in his basement, where he eventually realises (and this broke my heart) that all the things he has saved and fixed – and that he thought he would be able to keep on saving – are beyond him now; that he ought to just "pitch the whole damn lot of it".

For those who would rather see all the risks at once, a handy chart of "S.T.D. basics" catalogs the infections that can be transmitted by nine kinds of sexual activity.

"It was once very handy for us to have an emotion in place that signaled we were losing standing.

It can even come in handy once in a while, believe me.

Well, he's relaxed enough, and he certainly comes in handy once Indominus rex, as feared, goes on the lam.

He also has several crafty moves that come in handy once he has his defender on the move, including a deft midrange game.

Reviews have little effect, he concluded, though a New Statesman review of one of his books once came in handy, by implying he was homosexual.

These once provided a handy way for Chinese users to see material stored on blocked websites.After the blocking of Google on August 31st, many Chinese Internet users posted messages on bulletin boards in China protesting against the move.

He also pursued martial arts, which came in handy once at the school, when a large man grew belligerent; Mr. Chodan was summoned and put the man in a jujitsu necklock until the police came, recalled Al Pankin, the owner of U.S. Auto School.

His associates' engineering skills came in handy once again in the days before his recapture last February, when he eluded Mexican security forces by escaping from a safehouse in Culiacán, the capital of Sinaloa state, via a hatch under the bathtub that led to a network of tunnels and the sewers beneath the city.